Meanings
- uncountableThe study of nomenclature of small local places such as mountains, fields, or sections of forests.
The unofficial status of microtoponymy on Vernon is illustrated by the matter-of-fact, spontaneous, and descriptive nature of such names.
2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, →ISBN2 more examples
The Christian chronicler obviously did not “recognize” the Biblical name in the Kievan placename: evidently, the mountain—name Khorevitsa had been deeply rooted in the pre-Christian Kievan microtoponymy;
2007, Peter Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Roná-Tas, The World of the Khazars, →ISBNThe field of microtoponymy is concerned with individual or local use of toponyms in a small village or urban quarter, which may also reflect the social relations of their inhabitants.
2015, Jonas Schnabel-Le Corre, Betina Löfström, Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy, →ISBN
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